TwilightVulpine

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[–] TwilightVulpine 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have been finding out that tiring my fingers with people who only pretend to be discussing but gloss over what's being said is a waste of time.

I'm acting like an ass because you are acting like an ass. Isn't it obvious how relevant it is to bring up how DRM personally affected me? Do you actually have a reason to say why losing a game I have bought isn't actually the fault of DRM, or are you just going to pretend it doesn't matter? Be it me or anyone else, we can still access games that were abandoned by the developers just fine, as long as DRM doesn't get in the way,

If you are gonna repeat yourself with "Once again you have it backwards" don't even bother. If you really mean to talk it out, don't avoid the point.

[–] TwilightVulpine 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Oh boy, I wonder what's the relevance of being a first-hand witness of what happens when DRM that doesn't purge itself, doesn't get removed and loses support. I wonder how differently that would have gone if DRM had never been used instead.

Welp, who knows what's the point of it all. A complete mystery huh 🤷‍♂️

[–] TwilightVulpine 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

DRM doesn't purge itself automatically. I don't know how to spell it any clearer but if the problem is that DRM continues to exist, and it is solved when DRM is removed, then DRM itself is the problem.

And I speak as someone who lost my official purchase of Tron Evolution to outdated DRM.

I don't think you are arguing in favor of cracking groups, as much as I'm appreciative of them.

[–] TwilightVulpine 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

It is an inherent problem with DRM, because if there was no DRM there wouldn't be a possibility of this happening.

[–] TwilightVulpine 13 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Can, but might not. Companies are not notorious for spending effort on products they are abandoning. The only reason they do it with Denuvo is that it charges them a subscription for as long as it's implemented.

[–] TwilightVulpine 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's always small hardware quirks to be accounted for, but when we are talking about machine learning, which is not directly programmed, it's less applicable to blame developers.

The issue is that computer system are now used to whitewash mistakes or biases with a veneer of objective impartiality. Even an accounting system's results are taken as fact.

Consider that an AI trained with data from the history of policing and criminal cases might make racist decisions, because the dataset includes a plenty of racist bias, but it's very easy for the people using it to say "welp, the machine said it so it must be true". The responsibility for mistakes is also abstracted away, because the user and even the software provider might say they had nothing to do with it.

[–] TwilightVulpine 16 points 11 months ago (15 children)

...until the stores decide to stop offering them.

[–] TwilightVulpine 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that game companies are no long interested in prolonged lifetime they can't directly monetize. Who cares that mods add a decade of additional sales if people are modding costumes instead of buying them from the cash shop.

And this sort of attitude is making me wonder if it's still worth buying from these companies.

[–] TwilightVulpine 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it took years for Minecraft to truly become the massive success that it is today. This one seemed like just a meme from the trailers and then suddenly everyone is playing.

[–] TwilightVulpine 14 points 11 months ago

I was thinking just last month that it would be nice if there was some Pokémon game that let you farm and do everyday stuff with them. Then comes Palworld and it's not just Pokémon with guns but you can manage a whole base of creatures doing stuff for you.

[–] TwilightVulpine 1 points 11 months ago

I like mechanical web shooters better but that scene was pretty funny

[–] TwilightVulpine 7 points 11 months ago

This is literally the very first thing he tries to do in the comics before he becomes Spider-Man and it doesn't work because the people he reached out for thought it was too short-lived.

But also, needing to juggle real life responsibilities like having a job is one of the main appeals of Spider-Man as compared to, say, the Avengers.

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